Told to cut down his son’s time in the clubhouse, Chicago White Sox first baseman Adam LaRochetook a different path: He said he planned to retire and walk away from a $13 million salary. White Sox President Kenny Williams confirmed Wednesday that he twice asked LaRoche in the last week… Read More

Frank Sinatra Jr., who carried on his famous father’s legacy with his own music career and whose kidnapping as a young man added a bizarre chapter to his father’s legendary life, died Wednesday. He was 72. The younger Sinatra died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest while on tour in Daytona Beach, Florida,… Read More

Amid concerns that a missing 14-year-old Houston-area girl is in danger after possibly having been with her father when he was killed and his burned body dumped near a ditch in a rural area north of the city, authorities searched for her Tuesday with help from the FBI. Walker County… Read More

  A Florida woman is fighting to keep her 6-foot-long pet alligator in her home. The 125-pound reptile named Rambo wears clothes, rides on the back of a motorcycle and has a bedroom in Mary Thorn’s home in Lakeland. Thorn has had a license for the alligator she’s kept for… Read More

The 500-year-old wreckage of Portuguese ship piloted by an uncle of explorer Vasco da Gama has been found off the coast of Oman, archaeologists said Tuesday, a discovery that included the recovery of an incredibly rare coin. The Esmeralda sank during a violent storm near al-Hallaniyah Island in the Indian… Read More

“Indiana Jones” is swinging back into theaters with Harrison Ford reprising the iconic role and Steven Spielberg directing. The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that the fifth film in the action adventure series will open July 19, 2019. The last “Indiana Jones” movie was 2008’s poorly received “Indiana Jones and… Read More

An unprecedented daylong shutdown of the Washington area’s Metro subway system will force commuters to spend a day without their most reliable form of transportation — and the source of their constant complaints. Ridership on Metro has dipped as the system’s reliability has deteriorated, and gripes on social media occur… Read More

While acknowledging for the first time that votes were bought in past World Cup hosting contests, FIFA is seeking to claim “tens of millions of dollars” in bribe money seized by U.S. federal prosecutors. FIFA submitted a 22-page claim to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York on Tuesday that… Read More

Police in Philadelphia say a thief stole a minivan that had been left running in front of a store with a 4-month-old baby inside but later dropped off the child outside a home about 8 miles away. Sgt. Eric Gripp says the white minivan was stolen just before 8 a.m…. Read More

Police shot and killed a suspect who stole a patrol car and led officers on an hour-long chase across Southern California freeways that ended with a dramatic collision in an alley, authorities said. The driver hit speeds topping 100 mph during the pursuit that was broadcast live on news stations… Read More